Modern architecture to film in
53 of them in 17 European countries, 28 with a photo and 11 with practical details the location publishes itself. Search and put three side by side in the locations search.
Contemporary buildings with a strong shape: museums, concert halls, campuses, glass towers and brutalist concrete.
Where they are
- United Kingdom 9
- France 8
- Italy 5
- Spain 5
- Germany 4
- Netherlands 4
- Austria 3
- Czech Republic 2
- Hungary 2
- Lithuania 2
- Poland 2
- Portugal 2
- Belgium 1
- Luxembourg 1
- Serbia 1
- Slovakia 1
- Sweden 1
Modern architecture in the United Kingdom 9
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Barbican Centre
Modern architecture
Brutalist arts complex of concrete terraces, lakeside walkways, a conservatory, foyers and concert halls, set inside the Barbican housing estate in the City.
Seen in: Andor, Slow Horses
Canary Wharf
Modern architecture
Privately managed estate of high rise offices, dock water, malls, roof gardens and underground service roads in east London, with an in house filming team.
Eden Project
Modern architecture
Environmental attraction built into a former china clay pit near St Austell, with two giant geodesic biome domes housing rainforest and Mediterranean planting.
Seen in: Die Another Day
Here East
Modern architecture
A converted Olympic press and broadcast centre beside the canal in Hackney Wick, now offices, television studios and workshop space.
Campus totals 1.2 million sq ft of flexible space; around 6,500 people work and study on site.
Museum of Liverpool
Modern architecture
Angular white waterfront museum on Liverpool's Pier Head, part of National Museums Liverpool's group of seven sites made available for commercial filming.
National Space Centre
Modern architecture
A space science museum in Leicester with a distinctive rocket tower, planetarium and exhibition halls, available for venue hire including production use.
Riverside Museum
Modern architecture
A Zaha Hadid designed transport museum where the Kelvin meets the Clyde in Glasgow, with a zigzag roofline, a recreated street and a tall ship moored outside.
Titanic Belfast
Modern architecture
A six floor angular aluminium clad museum on the Belfast slipway where the Titanic was built, with galleries and function spaces hired for events.
Modern architecture in France 8
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Centre Pompidou-Metz
Modern architecture
Museum of 2010 under a woven timber roof, with three tubular galleries stacked over a tall glazed forum and terraces facing the railway station quarter.
La Défense
Modern architecture
Purpose-built business district west of Paris with high-rise office towers, an elevated pedestrian esplanade and the Grande Arche at its western end.
Bourse de Commerce, Pinault Collection
Modern architecture
Former 19th-century grain exchange with a circular rotunda and glass dome, renovated by Tadao Ando with an internal concrete cylinder as a contemporary art museum.
Capacity: 800 · Ground-floor Salon and Passage (up to 800 for a cocktail reception or 220 for a seated dinner), Foyer on floor -1 (up to 300 for a cocktail...
Cité de la Mode et du Design
Modern architecture
Former riverside customs warehouse on the Seine reclad in a green glass and steel skin, housing a design school, offices, a club and event floors over the water.
La Cite du Vin
Modern architecture
Twisting glass and aluminium tower on Bordeaux's Garonne quays, built around a wine museum and a top-floor tasting room, with function spaces used for private events and film screenings.
MuCEM
Modern architecture
Marseille museum in a concrete cube wrapped in a black lattice screen, linked by a footbridge to the 13th-century Fort Saint-Jean at the harbour entrance.
Musee des Confluences
Modern architecture
Steel and glass museum at the point where the Rhone meets the Saone, with a raised plinth, angular ramps, a tall crystal hall and dark windowless galleries.
Site Le Corbusier, Firminy
Modern architecture
Le Corbusier's Firminy-Vert complex, completed after his death, with a raw-concrete Unite d'habitation apartment block, a stadium and a church, its visitor centre offering room hire for seminars.
Modern architecture in Italy 5
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Corviale
Modern architecture
A single kilometre-long social housing block on Rome's southwest edge, built in 1972 to a rationalist design with a repeating concrete facade and long open access corridors.
Seen in: Christian, Lovely Boy, Siccità, The Iris Affair
Water and mains power on site, paved road access for large vehicles, cable-car access
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Lingotto Rooftop Track and Pinacoteca Agnelli
Modern architecture
Former Fiat car factory in Turin with a rooftop test track encircling the building, now containing exhibition halls, a hotel and the Pinacoteca Agnelli art gallery beneath a glass pavilion.
Seen in: The Italian Job (1969)
MAXXI - National Museum of 21st Century Arts
Modern architecture
Zaha Hadid's 2010 museum building in Rome, built on the site of a former army barracks, with curving concrete galleries, a black steel staircase and large open exhibition halls.
MUSE - Science Museum of Trento
Modern architecture
Renzo Piano's 2013 science museum in Trento, a stepped glass and steel structure across several floors of exhibition space, part of the redeveloped Le Albere riverside district.
Quartiere EUR
Modern architecture
A 1930s planned district built for a cancelled world's fair, laid out in wide rationalist boulevards around the square-arched Palazzo della Civiltà Italiana and an artificial lake.
Seen in: Boccaccio '70, Christian, Diavoli, Era ora
Water and mains power on site, accessible by large vehicles, by car and on foot
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Modern architecture in Spain 5
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Centro Botin
Modern architecture
Renzo Piano arts centre of 2017 raised on columns over Santander bay, with two curved ceramic clad volumes, glazed walkways, an auditorium and gallery floors.
City of Culture of Galicia
Modern architecture
A hilltop complex of curved stone and glass buildings by Peter Eisenman above Santiago de Compostela, combining library, museum and archive functions on wide open plazas.
Capacity: 800 · Nine main rentable spaces: the Fontan Auditorium (836 m2, 694 seats, dividable), CINC's Auditorium 1 (177 seats), Auditorium 2 (106 seats) and...
Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Modern architecture
Frank Gehry's titanium clad museum of 1997 on the Nervion, with a tall atrium, curved galleries, a 130 metre long hall and riverside terraces.
Seen in: The World Is Not Enough
City of Arts and Sciences
Modern architecture
A cluster of white concrete and glass structures by Santiago Calatrava and Felix Candela beside the old Turia riverbed, including a planetarium dome, an opera house, a science museum and an oceanarium.
Six buildings (Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia, Hemisferic, Museu de les Ciencies, Umbracle, Agora and Oceanografic) across a 350,000 m2 site along a...
Laboral Ciudad de la Cultura
Modern architecture
Former 1950s vocational university complex in Gijon, one of Spain's largest buildings, with a tall tower, a domed theatre and courtyard, now a cultural centre offering spaces for hire and its own filming rental process.
Modern architecture in Germany 4
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Hyparschale Magdeburg
Modern architecture
A 1969 multi-purpose hall by engineer Ulrich Muther next to Magdeburg's Stadthalle, built from four self-supporting hyperbolic paraboloid concrete shells and reopened in 2024 after restoration.
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phaeno Wolfsburg
Modern architecture
Science centre by Zaha Hadid in Wolfsburg, a concrete body raised on cones with a cavernous open space beneath and a column free exhibition floor above.
Bauhaus Dessau
Modern architecture
1926 Bauhaus school building by Walter Gropius in Dessau, a UNESCO World Heritage site with glass curtain walls, workshop wings, studio flats and an auditorium.
Egon-Eiermann-Bau Apolda
Modern architecture
A modernist industrial building by architect Egon Eiermann on the edge of Apolda, originally built for fire-extinguisher production and now used as studios and creative workspace.
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Modern architecture in the Netherlands 4
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A'DAM Toren
Modern architecture
Former Shell office tower from 1971 in Amsterdam-Noord, now a hotel and events building with a rooftop observation deck and bar overlooking the IJ and the city.
Erasmusbrug
Modern architecture
Asymmetric cable-stayed bridge with a 139-metre bent steel pylon spanning the Nieuwe Maas against the Rotterdam skyline.
Seen in: Who Am I? (1998)
Evoluon
Modern architecture
Flying-saucer-shaped former Philips technology museum from 1966 in Eindhoven, now a conference and events venue with a large domed hall and surrounding terraces.
Groninger Museum
Modern architecture
A museum in the city of Groningen in a brightly coloured postmodern building designed with Alessandro Mendini, with galleries and event spaces available for hire.
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Hangar-7
Modern architecture
Curved glass and steel aviation hangar at Salzburg Airport housing the Flying Bulls historic aircraft collection, a restaurant and event spaces beneath its open-span dome roof.
Kunsthaus Graz
Modern architecture
Biomorphic blue-panelled contemporary art museum of 2003 on the Mur riverbank, its bulging acrylic shell fitted with roof-top nozzle skylights beside Graz's baroque old town.
Rentable spaces named on site are Space04 (meeting/presentation room) and Needle (elevated glass observation platform) (own site).
wolke21 at Saturn Tower
Modern architecture
A penthouse event space atop the Saturn Tower in Vienna's Donau City, with a 160 square metre sky lobby, a 50 square metre bar, a large foyer and a 160 square metre terrace with a near 360 degree view.
160 sqm sky lobby, 50 sqm bar area, 160 sqm terrace
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Brummel's House, Plzeň
Modern architecture
A 1929 townhouse in Plzeň with an interior designed by architect Adolf Loos for the Brummel family, its five rooms and original furniture surviving wartime bombing and a 1980s demolition attempt.
Jested Tower Hotel
Modern architecture
Single cone shaped hotel and television transmitter on the summit of Jested mountain above Liberec, reached by cable car, with a circular restaurant and panoramic windows.
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House of Hungarian Music
Modern architecture
A 2022 concert and exhibition building by Sou Fujimoto in Budapest's City Park, with a canopy roof cut by tree-shaped openings over glass-walled halls, a 360-degree dome cinema and recording studios.
MODEM Modern and Contemporary Arts Center
Modern architecture
A glass-fronted exhibition building in central Debrecen with large open gallery halls and a minimal facade, used for contemporary art shows and with its rooms listed for hire on its own site.
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Vilnius TV Tower
Modern architecture
Concrete tower of 1980 standing 326 metres, with a revolving observation deck at 165 metres, technical floors and a wide open site around the base.
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National Gallery of Art
Modern architecture
Gallery on the right bank rebuilt in 2009 from a 1980 museum, with grey stone volumes, a long ramp, high white halls and a terrace over the river valley.
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Osiedle A
Modern architecture
The first planned housing estate of postwar Tychy, built from the 1950s with low modernist blocks around courtyards and green space, named winner of the Silesian Film Location 2024 award.
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Okrąglak Department Store, Poznań
Modern architecture
A cylindrical 1948-1955 department store in central Poznan, 45 metres tall with 9 floors above ground and 2 below, its interior staircase winding around a central shaft with a rooftop city view.
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Adega Mayor
Modern architecture
A contemporary winery building in Campo Maior, Alentejo, offering vineyard tours and tastings alongside its architecture, listed in Portugal Film Commission's location database.
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Herdade do Freixo
Modern architecture
A rolling Alentejo wine estate near Redondo whose modern winery building won ArchDaily's Building of the Year in 2018, set among vineyards with wide viewpoints.
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K-Tower
Modern architecture
A slender, diagonally tilted residential and office tower beside the Leie river in Kortrijk, built in the early 2010s as a landmark of the city's redevelopment.
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Mudam Luxembourg
Modern architecture
Modern art museum by I. M. Pei built on the walls of Fort Thungen, with a glass entrance hall, stone clad galleries and long daylit exhibition halls.
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Avala Tower
Modern architecture
Telecommunications tower of 204 metres on Avala mountain south of Belgrade, with a viewing level, restaurant and parking at the base.
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Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
Modern architecture
Modern art museum on a spit of land in the Danube south of Bratislava, with white gallery halls, a sculpture park and a roof terrace over the river.
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Turning Torso
Modern architecture
A twisting residential skyscraper on Malmo's Vastra Hamnen waterfront, completed in 2005 to a Santiago Calatrava design of nine rotating cube sections, formerly the tallest building in the Nordic region.